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How to create embed code for your infographic

An emerging best practice with certain types of content — especially infographics — is to make that content available to share with embed code.

This ensures that people come back to your site to download the original content. In this example, we’re going to use the Noob’s Guide to Interactive Marketing – a fabulous infographic created by Unbounce, which is one of our technology partners. (We use Unbounce for landing page development and testing).

Step 1. Create two versions of your infographic.

The best practice that is emerging is to create two versions of your infographic generally in .png format:

Full Monty – 1800 pixels wide – all details are evident

Teaser – 600 pixels wide – some details not evident at this size

Generally speaking, the full-monty version with be 1800 pixels wide and as long as it needs to be to contain your content. The teaser version should be created no larger than 600 pixels wide. Ideally, you’ll want to create an infographic where some of the detail is not evident when viewed at 600 pixels wide. This encourages visitors to visit your site and download the full-monty version of your infographic.

Step 2. Create the embed code

While there are code generators floating around the web, code itself is really pretty simple. It’s a link and an image. Note that the image is the teaser while the link goes to the full-monty version of your infographic.

Here’s the generic format which you can copy and paste to customize for your infographic.

Step 3. Optimize the embed code for SEO purposes

Your intent here it to create traffic and links back to your site. So spend time on the following elements optimizing the following elements of your embed code.

For reference purposes here is the embed code from the Unbounce Infographic:

Note the elements you will want to optimize by using repetition:

The link to the infographic

Links to the full-monty version of the image.

The name of the teaser image

Note how the name of the image is benefit oriented

The alt text for the teaser image

The same as the name – helps with SEO

The title text for the teaser image

The same as the name & the link – helps with SEO

Link back to your Company

This appears underneath the embed code itself and credits the infographic back to your company

Results to Expect

If you follow the 3 steps listed above, your infographic will drive traffic back to your website, as people see the teaser on a bloggers’ site(s), get interested, and click through to download the full-monty version. Infographics have the potential to generate traffic to your website but do little to generate marketing-qualified leads. There is no name capture and unless you have visitor tracking and analytics software installed on your site, it is unlikely that you will know who is (anonymously) downloading your infographic.

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This is a great post! At Marketo, we find that infographics attract a lot of traffic through social media, so the ability to post one is a key part of an inbound marketing strategy. This kind of tutorial is extremely helpful.

Your readers may be interested in some other inbound marketing tips. If so, here’s a tip we sheet we put together:

Great tutorial and advice. If you are going to invest the time to develop an infographic, you definitely want to make sure it is helping to drive traffic to your site and improve your search engine ranking.

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So, when someone clicks on the infographic, I assume that links to the JPEG or PNG file. Then, it looks like I need to copy and paste the embed code under the infographic so that bloggers can give credit to our infographic. I use WordPress and I’m trying to figure out how to add the embed code. I saved as a text file so when the link is clicked, the html code can be copy and pasted.

I’m not sure how the process of the blogger works. Do they copy the link for the JPEG file and then copy and paste the embed code underneath the post?

I’m a bit confused on the steps. If you could clarify, that would be greatly appreciated.

You’re asking bloggers who put up the Infographic to include the embed code and it is the embed code itself which calls the infographic. The embed code also includes a link back to your site which is SOOO important to drive traffic.